Insights

Content strategy, operations, and AI—observations from the field

Is This the Year You Fix Your Website?
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

Is This the Year You Fix Your Website?

If, despite myriad redesigns and launches, you are hearing the same complaints over and over – from your audience or people inside your organization – it is time to try something different. Here are four guidelines for fixing your website once and for all.

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Do You Need a UX Person?
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

Do You Need a UX Person?

User experience is more than research, wireframes, and interface design. It's planning for how people interact with your organization via all its communication channels and products. Do you need someone to manage the UX?

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Design Pattern Libraries & Content
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

Design Pattern Libraries & Content

Interface design pattern libraries and style guides are not just for visual designers and front-end developers. Content designers and strategists should also be involved. When they are, updates are easier, faster, and cheaper. What's not to like?

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A Website is Just a Tool
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

A Website is Just a Tool

A website is one piece of a puzzle for your business operations. It cannot perform miracles. Look at the strategy behind the website to find answers.

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Just Enough Content (Types)
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

Just Enough Content (Types)

There are no rules when it comes to how much content on a web page or how many content types to create for a system. Too much, too little, or just right? That's up to what is needed.

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UX and Content: Time to Come Together
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

UX and Content: Time to Come Together

It is time for the UX community to embrace content strategy. To stop thinking about UX as designing interfaces but designing the overall experience and everything that it includes–especially the content.

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Basics of Voice
Susan Westwater Susan Westwater

Basics of Voice

The evolution from website to smartphone showed that a user's information needs don't change because of the interface or device. The nature of their interaction, however, does change. That is amplified with voice.

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Just Say No to Microsites
Carrie Hane Carrie Hane

Just Say No to Microsites

A separate website is rarely the best solution for publishing new and different content. Take stock of the problem before determining whether a microsite is needed.

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